From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 28 18:39:37 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id 3219216A420; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:39:35 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:39:35 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway To: Daniel Tourde Message-ID: <20070828183935.GB85642@hub.freebsd.org> References: <200708281928.26819.daniel.tourde@spray.se> <20070828172908.GC77256@hub.freebsd.org> <200708281949.26686.daniel.tourde@spray.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200708281949.26686.daniel.tourde@spray.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gdb and gfortran in 7.0? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:39:37 -0000 On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:49:25PM +0200, Daniel Tourde wrote: > Hello Kris, > > > > > I am trying 7.0-current and I am planning to use CVS. At the moment I > > > have the snapshot of Aug 07 installed on my machine. > > > > > > I saw that by default, during bootstrap, gfortran and gdb aren't built. > > > Do I simply need to comment the two NO_ flags in Makefile.incl to get > > > gfortran and gdb or do I need to do anything else? > > > > gdb is included in 7.0 and should be built by default. gfortran is > > not included in 7.0 and you need to install the port if you want it. > > Thanks for your answer. > Why isn't gfortran (coming from gcc 4.2.1) included in 7.0 when f77 (coming > from gcc-3.4.6) is included in 6.2? Nothing in the base system requires it, and fortran is a niche language (though popular in that niche). This is the very definition of what the ports collection is for. Kris